The Indus Civilization (Cambridge History of India, Supplementary Volume) c15.15

c15.15

⁴ Aurel Stein, *Archaeological Reconnaissances in N.W. India and S.E. Iran* (London, 1927), p. 121 and pl. XVIII, Khur, E. i, 258; and Piggott in *Ancient India*, no. 4 (1948), p. 36. There is slight evidence (from Abydos and Abusir-el-Malik) that the camel may have been known to Egypt in predynastic times, but the early history of the animal is far from clear. See V. Gordon Childe, *New Light on the Most Ancient East* (London, 1952), pp. 65, 202.